...a letter to home

March 27, 2010

Giving up Chocolate II....

So here's another go at the post that I lost.... that's possibly the last time I try to set something up to publish at a future date. Also I have to apologise for the wrong column width at the moment on the blog clipping some of the images: typepad are helping me get the CSS right.... if I fail too much longer I will of course have to default to hiring Jonathan and his team...

Anyway Rina, Miriam and I had finally caught up for a long awaited lunch together, and were at Salt (at the Sofitel), which was very pleasant. The conversation turned to the usual topic lately: it seems that exclusion diets are the "in thing" with the GP's (family doctors) here at the moment. I'm sure it's the same the world over, but we're on diets for all sorts of maladies from allergies, sinus, asthma to lethargy, moods, weight gain and obviously type II diabetes- the list goes on and on.... Most commonly we're giving up gluten, sugar, or dairy; sadly often all three at once, but poor Veronica has even had to give up chicken (which would frankly leave me quite hungry).

So I ordered my sugar free soy latte (it still had caffeine in it thankfully, or it would have been that beverage known as a "why bother"), and it arrived in a stylish white mug with a very pretty little cookie on the side. I immediately took a bite out of it (well it would have been rude not to!) and Rina asked if there was anything in it we weren't allowed... Well it's made of butter, flour, milk and chocolate, so it's not made of anything we're not allowed, it's made of EVERYTHING we're not allowed. It was abandoned as above, with the one bite missing... so sad....

All is not lost of course, even in Fiji there's still lots of good food to be found. Yes, stop laughing, there IS. We have headed for the markets several times lately with visitors in two and found the best ever bananas (tangy with green peel), passionfruit, and ...guavas! The guavas were in season and we bought 2 big piles from the ladies at the market for FJD$2 (just over a $ US?); they were deliciously scented and the most beautiful colour, and disappeared completely soon after we got home from the boat....

Oops... caught outside the supermarket with these on the front seat, about to go in the kids' lunch boxes. But who could resist "Funkees" in wild BBQ curry or chilli cheese!?!! And what better way to entertain visitors than to feed them strange ice-creams that make their tongues go green; combined with the curries from chicken bites they now know what lunch at Namaka is all about....

OK I have to go now, I see on facebook my friend Steph is trying to stay away from chocolate, I'm off to link her to the post below (that will put her off), sota tale (see you later)! Oh and what happened with the cylcone? Thankfully for us nothing (see on Treasure blog here), but our thoughts are with those further east who were badly affected...

I'm now staying away from chocolates and other sweets, since my dentists in Las Vegas told me that eating them can make me have more cavities. It kinda saddens me because I'm so addicted to sweets. But right now, my teeth are more important than my cravings. Thanks to my dentists in Las Vegas for helping me realizing this.